Community Outreach

Cadence understands that the success of our business depends upon the success of our employees and the communities in which we live and work. Our Cadence Cares program promotes science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) among youth, with a special focus on girls, to create a future pipeline of diverse talent. Cadence is also a proud sponsor of Girls Who Code after-school and summer immersion programs that prepare girls for careers in computer science. We also believe it is important that we create meaningful opportunities for employees to connect and contribute to their community. As a result, we provide 40 hours of paid volunteer time off annually, charitable contribution matching, company-wide volunteer campaigns, and international service immersion projects.

2019 Community Outreach Highlights Cadence partnered with Team4Tech to send two teams of 10 employees to volunteer in Vietnam with Kidspire and in Uganda with Women in Technology Uganda. The volunteers completed eight weeks of leadership training and traveled to Vietnam and Uganda to implement their ideas to enhance classroom education with technology. In total, our volunteers provided over 2,100 hours of pro-bono service and reached over 1,300 students and teachers through their work on these two projects alone. Our annual Season of Giving campaign engaged more than 1,600 employees in 32 Cadence communities across 16 countries. Volunteers spent more than 9,000 hours volunteering for 60 different causes, such as renovating local schools and community centers, cooking with the elderly and blind, hiking with the disabled, building beds for children in need, and covering surgery costs for sick children. To celebrate our recognition as one of Fortune Magazine’s 100 Best Companies to Work For, Cadence partnered with Rise Against Hunger to contribute 300,000 meals for those in need. Together, over 1,000 Cadence employees around the world volunteered at 10 meal-packing events and donated funds through a Cadence match program. Cadence is devoted to introducing and promoting technology to the global community for the good of future generations. We supported the Extreme Tech Challenge, which funds new ventures whose mission aligns with the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals. This ongoing global effort will help pave the way for technology leaders and entrepreneurs of the future to deliver the breakthroughs necessary to help move the global society forward and realize a sustainable future.